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ROBERT D. GREENLEES, OF FA'IERTOWN, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,379, dated March 4, 1884.

Application filed July 16, 1883.l (No model.)

act description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention has for its object the production of a silk-hat, vor anyother stiff hat which shall4 be adapted to iit the head comfortably without the necessity of first shaping the same thereto; and it consists in the combination, with the main body portion of the hat having thezusual rigidity and stiffness, of an auxiliary body portion having a capacity to yield at any point, the auxiliary portion extending about the front side of the hat, as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a central vertical sectional view of my improved hat, and Fig. 2 a plan view of `the entire hat reversed.

To enable others skilled in the artto make `myimproved hat, I will proceed to describe fully the construction of the same. p

A represents the main body portion of the hat, having the usual rigidity and stiffness; and a, an auxiliary body portion extending vabout the front side of the hat-that is, fully half-way around, which has a capacity to yield readily at any point. The auxiliary body portion merges into the body portion at each end, and also at the inner surface, the same being about.two inches deep measuring from inner edge of brim. rlhe manner of making the same is substantially as follows: The calico, withv the shellac orother proper material employed, is wound or otherwise fixed upon the block until a sufficient thickness is obtained at the proper point for the auxiliary portion.v A form of wood or metal corresponding in shape with the'space which is to be left between the auxaffixed to the block, and the calico is again wound or otherwise fixed until the hat is completed, in the manner well understood. After the body has been completed the form of wood or metal is removed. From this it will be understood that the m-aterial usually employed to make thehat maybe so wound as to make asingle structure, and yet be separatedat one point to form the main and auxiliary portions before referred to.

The hat, it will be observed, does not differ from ordinary hats at the rear side of the same, but at the front side has the auxiliary portion, which is yielding or flexible, so as to change position. By means of this construction the hat is adapted to conform itself to any ordinary head without shaping, its rigid side bearing on the back of the head, where material iliary portion and the main portion is then irregularities do not so much occur, and its yielding front side adapting itself without difficulty to the special outline of the head of the wearer.

tion is entirely avoided, and hence the latter is never twisted out of shape.

By means of this auxiliary portion lthe necessity for shaping the main body por- If desired, the auxiliary body portion may g be perforated for the purpose of ventilation.

Having thusl fully described my invention, what I lclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The hat described, consisting 'of a single structure separated at one point to form the main body portion A, having the usual rigidity and stiffness, and the auxiliary body portion a., having a yielding capacity at any point, as described.

This specication signed and witnessed this 3d day of July, 1883.

ROBT. D. GREENLEES.-

Witnesses:

JOHN W. HOGAN, WM. H. MOULD. 

